‘Australian fighters pose with a captured Turkish sniper disguised as a cannabis bush’. The Turkish sniper was photographed immediately after capture while he was being brought in under guard. He was camouflaged by a Jack-in-the-Green arrangement of cannabis foliage attached to his clothing. Gallipoli peninsula, Turkey 1916
This photograph was taken during what is now known as the ‘Battle of Gallipoli’ in which the allied powers attempted a ground invasion against the Ottoman empire on the Gallipoli peninsula in modern day Turkey, hoping to capture the Ottoman capital of Constantinople.
Snipers have always been trained to use native vegetation that is abundance for their camouflage, this would lead one to believe cannabis was very prevalent on this battle field.
Here’s a couple more shots from the Battle of Galliopoli in 1915/16
“Australian soldier and a man of the New Zealand Mounted Rifles Brigade with two little children with whom they had made friends on Lemnos.” during the Battle of Gallipoli 1915
Notice all the nice cannabis plants growing wild.
‘Soldiers of the Indian Army Mule Transport smoking a water pipe’, Battle of Gallipoli 1915
